Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-05-05
The Cover Again Lifted.

quake reached Charleston last fall .
that it did not wait until the goth
day of April, 1887, SO as to take in
the tens of thousands of people who
assembled In that trundlebed of trea-
son to witness the unveiling of a
monument erected in memory of
John {. Calhoun, the father of Sc
cession-an early breeder of treason.
Secretary Lamar, of Cleyeland's cab
met, made the address. 1t was long.
polished and able, but it undulv
glorified one of the Republics worse
foes. Mr.. Cleveland wrote a letter
In which he thought that it would
have been better for the country if
the people had understood aud ''be-
lieved and taught" the principles of
Mr.. Calhoun. The Oshkosh Times.
staunch democratic paper, takes
exception to Mr.. Cleveland's letter
TO the managers of the Calhoun
demonstration, and wants to know
If the President realizes that what
Mr.. Calhoun "believed and taught"
was that the "constitution was only
a compact;" that any state had a
right to secede at pleasure and that
there was no authority under the
constitution to compel a seeding
state to return to the Union? The
Times would like to know if Mr..
Cleveland was conyersant with the
principles entertained by MIR. Cal
houn. Not only the Times but all
of the liberty-loving, country-loving
people Of the land would like to
know what Mr.. Cleveland really
means when he says it would have
been better if the people had "be-
lieyed and taught" as John G. Cal
houn believed and taught The
managers of the great occasion were
sorely disappointed and greatly
troubled because of letter received
from the ex-president Of the ex-con-
deracy,-blessed old hero, loved and
honored as no other man is loved
and honored in the south, by a large
majority of people--in which be
said that his health was such as did
not warrant him in undertaking 50
long a journey at this time. But
the monument is unveiled aud all
who visit earthquake tossed Charles
ton from this on will have the pleas
ure or displeasure of viewing a mon
ument to John G. Calhoun who, but
for the patriotism, promptness, de
cision and loyalty Of grand old Pres
ident Jackson would have carried
his state out OF the Union long be
fore 1861. No one questions the
great ability of John q. Calhoun.
He was man with a towering intel
lect, but he loved the pet Institution
Of the south-American slavery
better than he loved the Union, and
when few people at the north crit
icised slavery, John G. Calhoun set
himself to work to have the southern
states withdraw from the Union and
establish separate government.
Thanks to sold Hickory" tina, en-
terprise was failure, "by the EJer-
nal" But Calhoun had sown the
seeds of treason, had planted the
thOrns of secession, and few years
later they had so grown and -four
ished that the great war of the re-
bellion came upon the people and
rivers of blood flowed, and millions
of people mourned, and a million
new-made graves marked the track
of treason's four-year cyclone; bill
lions Of money were expended in
prosecuting the war that he had
tried to bring about in his lifetime,
and which was very largely brought
about because of his pernicious
teachings 1t is such a man that
the people of South Carolina most
delight to honor. The man who
would have suggested to the people
of Charleston that they erect a mon
ument to the memory Of Abraham
Lincoln would have been hooted at,
if not driven from the city and state;
but the people, almost without al
dissenting voice, united heartily and
generously in erecting monument
to the memory of John {. Calhoun.
The south dares the north to rip off
the plauks of the bloody chasm, but
the north, der1agogues say, must
not rip them OF. The speech of
Top,ar on1 The 6icpIav ovar Gal
houu's dust was a passing breeze
which lifted the covering SO as to
display portions of the many headed
monster, secession. 1t was rs ap,
parent at Charleston last Tuesday as
it was a year ago when the wild ac-
claims rang out from Louisiana to
Savannah as the viperish jeff Davis
swept from the Mississippi to the
sea. Sting and stab, SWIVEL, snap
and snarl as you may, northern dem
aunrvupS and southern hot-heals